♦ Password: The password to use for streaming content and administration. This needs to precisely match the password in the SHOUTcast Radio dsp plug-in in order for source providers to send content with your server.

♦ Logfile: The file to use to store the console log. Use /dev/null or leave empty to disable file-based logging.

♦ SrcIP: The IP interface to bind the source listener to. Only important on machines with more than one IP interface or ethernet card. Default is to listen to all IP addresses, when set to ANY.

♦ DestIP: The IP interface to listen for clients on. Only important on machines with more than one IP interface or ethernet card. Default is to listen to all ip addresses, when set to ANY.

♦ RelayServer: [Optional] If defined, the SHOUTcast Radio server will not accept source connections, and instead attempt to connect to the server name defined here for transmission.

♦ RelayPort: [Optional] The port that the relay server is sending audio on.

♦ RelayPublic: [Optional] When running a relay server, use “always” to make the server always public (regardless of whether the source server is public) or “never” to make the server never public. Anything else makes the server the same as the source server.

♦ RealTime: [Console systems only] This flag determines whether or not the server displays a real-time status indicator with listner count.

♦ ScreenLog: [Console systems only] If this flag is set to 1, the server will display all diagnostic data on screen in addition to writing it to the logfile.

♦ HistoryLog: [Optional] If set to anything other than ‘none’, the server will append to the file named here information on listener count, timestamp, and metadata at a provided interval.

♦ HistoryLogTime: [Optional] The value, in seconds, of how often the server should update the HistoryLogFile.

♦ Yport: [Optional] If you’re located behind a web cache, you can tell the SHOUTcast Radio server to use a different inbound port to send directory data to. The only values that work are 80 and 800. The default is 80.

♦ NameLookups: [Optional] If set to 1, the server will attempt to resolve all IP addresses into their FQDN (i.e. 207.48.52.225 becomes www.winamp.com)

♦ AutoDumpUsers: [Optional] If set to 1, the server will disconnect listeners whenever the source becomes inactive. Otherwise, listeners are left connected and either get dead air or the BackupFile (see below).

♦ IntroFile: [Optional] If defined, the server will send this file as-is to the listener before joining them with the content stream. CAUTION: This file MUST be in MP3 format, and of the *PRECISE* same bitrate, samplerate, and mono/stereo setting as your stream!!! If the file differs from the stream, the user gets an earful of nastiness or dead air.

♦ BackupFile: [Optional] If defined, the server will send this file as-is to the listener whenever the server loses contact with the source stream or the source stream idles for 30s or more.

♦ TitleFormat: [Optional] When defined, this string will repurpose how metadata appears to the player. If the flag %s is included in the parameter, then the title data from the source is included at that point in the string. For example, if your TitleFormat is ‘Fobar Radio: %s’, and the source plug-in’s title is ‘Billy plays the blues’, then the net title is ‘Foobar Radio: Billy plays the blues’. Note: only works on non-relay servers.The default is no format string. URLFormat: [Optional] This behaves just like TitleFormat, except it applies to the minibrowser URL. Only useful when you want to do redirections and keep track of ‘em.

♦ CurrentLog: [Optional] CurrentLog provides a mechanism for regular updates to a file located on the same server as the SHOUTcast Radio server. CurrentLog itself as a parameter does not exist, but rather is a family of parameters. They are as follows:

♦ CurrentLogIn is the filename of an HTML template file.

♦ CurrentLogOut is the filename the server should output the file to.

♦ CurrentLogTime is the number of seconds the server should wait between updates to the output file.

The HTML template file is best explained with an example. Consider this file, stored on the same server and pointed to as CurrentLogIn:

<HTML><HEAD>
 
<TITLE>My Current Stats</TITLE>
 
<HEAD><BODY>
 
My SHOUTcast Radio server is currently playing. 
You can see more information about it at.
 
</BODY></HTML>

Once you have finished configuring you can start the radio by executing:

 /home/shoutcast/sc_serv

(Please ensure you do not execute this as the root user and have either logged in directly as the shoutcast user or used switch user).